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Brynn Hartman

Full Name:	Brynn Hartman
Alias:	Brynn Omdahl Vicki Jo Omdahl
Origin:	Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States
Occupation:	Model Actress
Hobby:	Doing drugs Drinking alchohol
Goals:	Kill her husband (succeeded)
Crimes:	Murder Mariticide Domestic abuse
Type of Villain:	Family Murderer

Brynn Hartman (April 11th, 1958 – May 28th, 1998) was the third wife of actor Phil Hartman, as well as the perpetrator of the couple's murder-suicide.

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Vicki Jo Omdahl was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, to Donald Gene Omdahl and Constance Faye Omdahl (née Arnold), and had a brother named Gregory Clark Omdahl and two sisters named Katherine Kelly Omdahl Wright and Debbie Omdahl Borreson. On May 20, 1977, she married Douglas Iver Torfin, but they later divorced.

On November 25, 1987, she married Phil Hartman. They had two children: Sean Edward Hartman (born 1987) and Birgen Hartman (born 1992). Both children are currently being raised by her sister Katherine and her husband Michael Wright in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Hartman acted in small roles on television and film, playing a waitress in the Elijah Wood film North and a Venusian on 3rd Rock from the Sun. She met her husband, actor Phil Hartman, while working as a Catalina swimsuit model. She can also be seen during the early 1990s opening credit sequence of Saturday Night Live, having dinner with Hartman. At the time, Phil's career was near its highest point.

On May 28, 1998, she killed her husband in his sleep, shooting him three times with a revolver. Around 2am or 3am, she drove to her friend Ron Douglas' house, and confessed, but he did not believe her. At 6:20am, the two of them drove back to the Hartman home where Douglas discovered the body. Douglas subsequently called the police, who arrived on the scene to escort the two children out of the house. Before the police attended to her, Hartman went back into the bedroom and killed herself with a second revolver, shooting herself in the right eye.

Phil Hartman's divorce attorney, Steven Small, stated in a CNN article that Brynn's anger management problems may have contributed to the murder/suicide. In a 1998 People Online article, Small also stated that the couple argued over her alcoholism, her addiction to cocaine and the impending divorce. Each was unhappy and accused the other of not allowing a divorce. According to an article on the website FranksReelReviews.com, she combined cocaine, alcohol, and Zoloft at the Hollywood restaurant Buca di Beppo the night of the murder/suicide.

According to Phil Hartman's friend and colleague Jon Lovitz, Brynn Hartman had been sober for 10 years until five months before the murder, when comedian Andy Dick reintroduced her to cocaine.

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+|occupation = Model<br>Actress
 |type of villain = Family Murderer
 |goals = Kill her husband (succeeded)
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 '''Brynn Hartman''' (April 11th, 1958 – May 28th, 1998) was the third wife of actor Phil Hartman, as well as the perpetrator of the couple's [[murder]]-suicide.
+==Biography==
+Vicki Jo Omdahl was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, to Donald Gene Omdahl and Constance Faye Omdahl (née Arnold), and had a brother named Gregory Clark Omdahl and two sisters named Katherine Kelly Omdahl Wright and Debbie Omdahl Borreson. On May 20, 1977, she married Douglas Iver Torfin, but they later divorced.
-Born '''Vicki Jo Omdahl''', Brynn married Phil Hartman in November 1987, which was early in Phil's tenure as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'', and had two children--Sean and Birgen--as a result of the marriage. The marriage became strained due to Brynn's drug use, and it was reported that in her final months, Brynn fell off the wagon after a decade of near sobriety. It was also uncovered that Brynn--a model and aspiring actress--harbored some jealousy of Phil's success.
+On November 25, 1987, she married Phil Hartman. They had two children: Sean Edward Hartman (born 1987) and Birgen Hartman (born 1992). Both children are currently being raised by her sister Katherine and her husband Michael Wright in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
+Hartman acted in small roles on television and film, playing a waitress in the Elijah Wood film ''North'' and a Venusian on ''3rd Rock from the Sun''. She met her husband, actor Phil Hartman, while working as a Catalina swimsuit model. She can also be seen during the early 1990s opening credit sequence of ''Saturday Night Live'', having dinner with Hartman. At the time, Phil's career was near its highest point.
+On May 28, 1998, she killed her husband in his sleep, shooting him three times with a revolver. Around 2am or 3am, she drove to her friend Ron Douglas' house, and confessed, but he did not believe her. At 6:20am, the two of them drove back to the Hartman home where Douglas discovered the body. Douglas subsequently called the police, who arrived on the scene to escort the two children out of the house. Before the police attended to her, Hartman went back into the bedroom and killed herself with a second revolver, shooting herself in the right eye.
+Phil Hartman's divorce attorney, Steven Small, stated in a CNN article that Brynn's anger management problems may have contributed to the murder/suicide. In a 1998 People Online article, Small also stated that the couple argued over her alcoholism, her addiction to cocaine and the impending divorce. Each was unhappy and accused the other of not allowing a divorce. According to an article on the website FranksReelReviews.com, she combined cocaine, alcohol, and Zoloft at the Hollywood restaurant Buca di Beppo the night of the murder/suicide.
+According to Phil Hartman's friend and colleague Jon Lovitz, Brynn Hartman had been sober for 10 years until five months before the murder, when comedian Andy Dick reintroduced her to cocaine.
-On the evening of May 27, 1998, Brynn and Phil had a heated argument over the former's drug use, with Phil stating that it would end their marriage. Brynn turned heel at close to 3AM on the following day, when she shot Phil to death while he was asleep; firing three shots at her husband (two in the head and one on his right side). She used a .38 caliber handgun in the murder, and after killing her husband, Brynn drove to the home of her friend, Ron Douglas, and confessed to her actions to Douglas and another friend. Hours later, Brynn returned to her home with Douglas and committed suicide; firing a single gunshot to her head.
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